• Question: Were there any influences upon you, as a child, to work with space related occupations?

    Asked by Summer_Louise to Andrea, Charlie 🚀, Col Op, Kirsty, Vinita on 17 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by Pang.
    • Photo: Andrea Boyd

      Andrea Boyd answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      My family is not technical at all and neither were my friends or anyone I knew as a child. My greatest influence was Star Trek Voyager – watching Chief Engineer B’Elanna Torres making everything electrical and mechanical work in space as a dayjob like it was nothing special made me resolve to do the same.

    • Photo: Columbus Operations

      Columbus Operations answered on 19 Jun 2016:

      Hi Summer_Louise,

      My career in space started when I was 8 years old and my dad took me to see E.T. at the cinema. Like the little boy Elliot in the film I wanted to make friends with Aliens from Space and so after watching the film I decided I want to be a space man….

      35 years later here I am, not quite in space but working with Space Men and Women every day!

      Simon

    • Photo: Kirsty Lindsay

      Kirsty Lindsay answered on 20 Jun 2016:

      For me it was the 1993 mission with Story Musgrave and ESA astronaut Claude Nicollier to give Hubble glasses and the 1995 Shuttle/ Mir docking with Mike Foale, a British born astronaut, and his later flight to Mir at stay on the station.

    • Photo: Charles Laing

      Charles Laing answered on 20 Jun 2016:

      Hi Summer_Louise,

      I remember as a child reading about humans landing on the moon. I saw the pictures in books and the footprint on the surface.

      I was fascinated by it all and always dreamed of doing something related when I was older! 🙂

      Charlie 🚀

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